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The Kano Police Command arrested three persons for allegedly buying permanent voter cards (PVCs), ahead of the supplementary governorship elections on March 23, 2019. DSP Abdullahi Haruna, the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), disclosed this in a statement issued in Kano on Wednesday. Haruna said on March 12 at about 8 pm, based on […]

The ruling All Progressives Congress has won 62 out of 109 seats in the Senate. The People’s Democratic Party has 37 seats and the Young Progressives Party secured one. Although the Senate is made up of 109 seats, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has only announced 100 winners as the commission had ordered reruns […]

The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) yesterday deferred rulings on two separate motions filed by the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. The motions are challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal to hear the criminal charges brought against Justice Onnoghen by the Federal Government. The tribunal also reserved ruling on another motion […]

    The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will conduct supplementary election in on 23 March in Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, and three other states where the March 9 elections are deadlocked. The other states are Benue, Plateau and Bauchi. Festus Okoye, head of the commission’s information and voter education committee, announced INEC’s decision on Tuesday […]

Whoever came up with the wise saying that Nigerian politics is dirty deserves an award for perspicacity. I have just returned from that dirtied, muddled up, confused, uncertain, unpredictable zone of Nigerian life and society with truck loads of stories in my head and enough impressions in my mind to last me another life-time. As […]

I was contemplating on what to write this week when the news of the crash of an Ethiopian Airline flight popped in. As is usual with such tragic news, shock was the immediate reaction as such breaking news come with very sketchy details. Such news are scary developments that often remind of man’s helplessness with […]

Two authoritative US organizations – the International Republican Institute (IRI) and National Democratic Institute (NDI) have expressed regret and disappointment over what they described as the lack of progress in election administration and conduct of political parties in Nigeria. The organizations also noted that the Nigerian government had failed to give vent to the 35% […]

Amid mounting global concerns over the safety of the state-of-the-art Boeing-737 Max aircraft that crashed and killed all 157 passengers and crew in Ethiopia on Sunday, the Minister of State for Aviation, Sen. Hadi Sirika, said contrary to the concern generated by Ethiopian Airlines’ unfortunate incident, there was no cause for alarm because no Boeing […]

A major controversy has erupted over the seemingly rampant declaration of elections as inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in States considered as strongholds of the opposition in some parts of the country. Piqued by the declaration of polls in which its candidates were leading as inconclusive, the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola […]

Alhaji Isah Ashiru, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Kaduna has rejected the outcome of the election, in which he lost to Gov. Nasir El-Rufai, of the All Progressives Congress (APC), saying he has substantial evidence showing the election results were manipulated. Ashiru is calling for the outright cancellation of the results, alleging […]

Several thousand people yesterday protested against the suspension of governorship elections in the volatile Rivers state following widespread disruption to the vote, as international monitors criticized violence at polling stations and called for electoral reform. State elections took place on Saturday in 29 of Nigeria’s 36 states two weeks after President Muhammadu Buhari was elected […]

  Gov. Aminu Tambuwal, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Sokoto has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to declare him winner of the Saturday election, despite the fact that the Commission declared the elections as inconclusive. Tambuwal made the call in a special broadcast on Monday in Sokoto, noting that Section […]